Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-05-12

Another new bank has been added to
ST. Paul. Horf Albert Scheffer, for many
years with the Bank Of Minnesota, is pres
ident OF the new bank, which Is TO be known
rs the Commercial National Bank OF st.
Paul, and which has a capital stock OF
$500. 600. The location is at the corner
of Fourth and Jackson.
General Passenger Agent Fee, of the
Northern Pacific, has returned to st. Paul
from his trip to the coast. He made the
trip over the Cascade division to Tacoma,
walking the gap OF about three miles OF the
uncompleted s~witchback on the western
side OF the mountains. He says that part
OF the road Is one OF the best pieces ever
turned over to the operating department
by the engineering department OF tho
Northern Pacific.
Hon. Gilbert MeMicken, just returned to
Wiunepeg from Ottawa, saysho learnedthere
from Sir John Macdonald thathe(Sir john
was to be raised to the peerage on June Il.
He will be given a seat in the house o~flords,
\ and viii retire permanently from Canadian
politics. Sir Charles Topper, dominion
finance minister. is to succeed him as lead.
er of the Conservative party. The state.
ment is also made public that Sir John
Rose OF London, formerly a Canadian cab
met minister, is to be raised the peerage al
so.
AZ Grand Rapids, Mich, the wife OF
Charles Martin, a young farmer, gave rat
poison to her children and took a dose
herself. The woman and elder child are
dead. The other child will reeover. Mrs.
Martin had lived uuhappily with her hus-
band.
The Vermont Central Railway company
find that they viii have to pay about ST.
600, 0 on account of the Forest Hills
bridge disaster in March.
In Cincinnati the new $500, 900 court
house, built to replace the one destroyed
by a mob three years ago, is already in
process OF disintegration through the fraud.
ulent and grossly imperfect work OF con.
tractors.
Among the letters received by the in.
terstate commission was one from III. C..
Moore, who runs a big wooden toothpick
factory at Fond du Lac, Wis. He com
plains hat for Eastern factories wood
toothpicks are ratod as from third TO fifth
class freight, while II he desires to ship west
he has to ship by way OF Chicago, and his
product is rated first class. He prays for
relief. g. w. Neff. editor CT the Crystal
Lake Mimi Union writes TO ask If it is
really true that editors must give up their
passes. He complains that the Omaha
has called in his annual.
The sixth attempt in six months was
made to burn the Office oil the New York
Zeitung. The ineendiary has not been dis.
covered.
Frank Tully. formerly q prosperous
busin ess man OF Rochester, y. Y, was ar.
resteG in New York on a charge OF forgery
preferred by George Leaf, his father in-law.
The prisoner, il is claimed, s~quandered
$4,000. ruined his father and himself,
committed a dozen forgeries or more, de-
- Z - a.
sociated with fast women.
Senator Cullom Of H., in a letter to a
friend in Washington, says he thinks the
interstate m law viii work its way
out al right. He does not apprehefid a
collapse Tor it. In the first place. the law
as 1t passed was not Just as he desired il,
but it was the best that could be done.
He ioresaw that its defects would become
apparent as soon as it was put in opera.
tion, and this wonld lead to their eorrec.
ton; by the time congress meets il viii be
well understood what corrections are need.
ed, and they will be made. He expects the
bin ultimately to affect all the good its
friends desired and looked for from it.
AT Helena, Mont, the other day some
twenty commercial travelers formed a con.
federation, Clipped in $40 each, and then
selected one OF their number, j. Il. Rhodes,
proceeded to arrest him for infringement OF
the drummers' tax. The case came to tri.
al, lasted five days, and was finally decid.
ed in favor of the drummer, the judge hold.
ing that the recent decision OF the United
States supreme court settled the question
conelusigely.
At a joint meeting OF coke workers and
knights OF Labor at Eyerson. Pa, it was
decided to Immediately stop work until
the demand FOR an advance Is granted.
| The strike will extend to all the works in
Connelsville region. About $4,000 men
will be affected.
At Dixon, ILL.,, Henry p. Berker, one oil
Dixon's most prominent citizens, died OF
paralysis. He was for years the leading
representative OF the milling interests, and
had held offices under the city govern
ment.
The Catholic University OF America has
been Incorporated, the certificate OF
Incorporation being filed at the city hall.
| The university Is established ito teach
philosophy, theology, natural science,
mathematics, history, belles-lettres, an
Gent and modern languages Law and midi.
cine."
North Dakota board Of agriculture mas
decided the location of the first fair in IA.
vor OF Grand Forks. accepting the guaran.
tee OF Sc 900 offered by that city.
Acting for Bishop Welles. of Wis, who
is still in Florida r~eeuperating his health,
Bishop Brown, of the diocese OF Fond du
Lac, has pronounced sentence OF deposit
ton from the ministry upon Rev. w. Il.
Walker, late rector OF st. Matthias church
at Waukesha, Wis. Mr.. Walkers offense
consisted in going to Milwaukee a few
weeks ago and iadulging in a spree.
Burton, Fla, Special: Thomas A. Edi
son and n party OF eight friends had a
narrow escape recently from being drown
ed at Kissinmee Spring, two miles from
here. where they had gone on a little pleas.
ure excursion. While all were standing on
a wharf Iunning out into the a the
structure gave way, precipitating all but
two OF the party into water eight feet
deep.
Tie board OF pardons OF Pennsylvania
recommended pardons in the cases oil
Michael 0'Rrien and Christopher Dounelly
Of %Schuylkii county known as the last OF
the "Moliy Maguires." Twenty-one mem.
bers OF the organization were hanged,
many served terms of Imprisonment and a
large number fed the country when the
murderous conspiracy was exposed.
Explosion and fire in the Vancouver coal
mine mt Nanimo, b. C., cause the death Of
probably 135 men.
Gen. Phil Sheridan leaves Washington
whenever Secretary Endicott does, because
he dislikes being under an acting secretary
OF war.
w. d. II. Washburn, United States com.
mercial agentat London, Ont, writes: The
result of the Interstate act has been most
damaging to both the United States and
Canada as regards exports and imports,
and is severely felt by buyers and sellers to
and from the United States. This records
OF this Office for April show less activity
and fewer exports than ever before for the
same period, and the same | believe to be
true throughout Canada.
Col. Frank H.. A1iriend, assistant libra.
rian OF the United States senate, died in
Washington oliver trouble. He was forty
six years OF age.
The internal revenue service report 4, o33
saloons in Iowa, 1852 in Kansas and
1 ,262 in Maine.
Congressman Cox will build a $4,000
house in Washington this summer.
Sam Randall's house in Washington is a
small brick structure, worth about So.
600.
The New York Life Insurance Company
has broken ground in st. Paul Tor q mil.
lion dollar building eleven stories high.
Work upon the structure will commence
at once, but the building " i'll probably not
be completed and ready Tor %ccupanc
before May, 1883.
There is much indignation among the old
soldiers at the letter of Gen. Rosser on Gen.
Sheridan. The latter naturally has moth
ing to say about the matter. lie is quite
content to permit any ex-Coniederate to
announce that he has forgiven all the I'm
ion men except himself.
At the last meeting OF the Loyal Legion
in st. Paul, the following new members
were admitted: Lieut.. William Cochren,
First Minnesota: Brevet Major Mont
gomery Thornton. captain Eighteenth
United States Colored Infantry; Lieut..
+. ID. Mcmillan, Fifteenth Vermont in
iantIy; Maj. b. G. Merry, Twenty. first
Maine infantry. II was the time for the
annual election of officers, and the follow